How to Let Go and Get What You Want?

Today’s Guest post comes from Jimmy Tong of Life Architects. After connecting with this young man some time ago, I knew it would only be a matter of time before he guest posted here on The Release. I’m super excited to have had both of these fellas guest spot here. I appreciate you both.

Next week, we will reconvene to the once a week posting schedule; that will take place on next Thursday. Happy New Year, everyone!! See you over in 2012!! Enjoy the read and please release some comment love for our guest.

I read a post from Marcus Baker about What does the law of Attraction Have to do with Losing Your Keys? Marcus shares extensively on how we can all Ask, Release, Believe and Receive at his site.

That particular post is special because it came at a time when I was starting to experience two new phenomenons in my life as well. One, I was starting to meditate. Second, something deep within me was telling me to stop telling IT what to do to get what I want in my life.

I do not know what you think of coincidences, but have you ever heard about the Law of Attraction? That was supposed to be rhetoric! Of course all of us have heard of Law of Attraction, right? When I linked what I was experiencing internally to what I was reading to what’s happening externally in my life, I can’t help but think that Law of Attraction is at work in my favor this time.

When my inner being told me to stop being the smart ass to figure out getting what I wanted, I took note and began to live more in the moment. My meditation certainly helped me to empty my mind more for more divine wisdom to pour forth into my being. Then Marcus’ post came. The next thing that happened to me was my family getting evicted from my home.

Yes, we were evicted. Not by my landlord but by my father-in-law because things came to a boil. You know what, I was actually very glad to go. Now my family lives in a cleaner and cooler house. My children are happier and my poor wife no longer has to face her strange parents. To me it was really attracting what I wanted and good has come out of this so far. I am thankful for this string of coincidences when I decided to let go.

There are some lessons I hope to share so that you will get what you want by letting go.

How can you let go of what you want?

 1.      Set your intention once and forget it.

I am not advocating that we do not visualize and plan for what we want in our lives. My point is to simply dream, plan, set and let go. Once you have imbedded that vision and image of what you want in your life, forget it. I know the law of attraction says to hold that image for as long as you can with you. But what Marcus mentioned in his post is correct – the more you want it, you are simply causing the vibration of not having it yet to become stronger.

2.      Replace your desire by doing what’s immediate.

Instead of dreaming about it all the time, go use that energy to do something totally different. Let’s say you are dreaming of increase sales in your company. You are thinking of all the strategies and things you could do to raise sales. What I am saying is to forget the strategy and brainstorming. You have done enough of that. Now, spend your efforts on doing what is the next task at hand. Maybe, it has to do with researching your products, creating your products and chatting with producers instead of marketing presentations. Go do other things. You will be surprise at how the universe makes connections.

3.      Empty your mind.

The next great thing to do is to empty your mind and stop being Dr. Know-It-All. You do not need to know how to get there. You do not need to know how to do it? You do not need to know what to say? Shift your focus and concentrate on emptying your mind regularly. For me, meditation was a big help. The more I emptied my mind, the more resources filled it. These are brand new resources and ideas fresh from heaven. How can you beat that form of support?

4.      Engage with people who come into your life.

As you shift your focus and energy, do not underestimate the people that you meet both online and offline. My recent wedding brought me back into contact with a long lost army friend. Guess what, we are now emerging business partner in a new venture. He was so excited about our congruence of ideas that he is calling me daily to tell me what he has discovered in his market research. Similarly, I am also meeting more online friends who are giving me more and more leads. This is all because I chose to focus on people I meet instead on the dreams I have.

5.      Focus on the positive things in your life.

As you live each day, there are bound to be positive and negative things in life. I am going to tell you the obvious that you never do often – start focusing on what makes you happy, even if the activities or people are totally not related to what you want. My children had nothing to do with my new business idea, but they made me smile a lot. So, I stopped working and played with them more whenever they are not in school. The results have been sensational for my soul.

I dare you now to let go. Forget what you want and go divergent. Radically divergent! The universe will bring you back full circle to what you want.

Your turn, 

Do you think too much about what you want? How often do you visualize what you want? Is that too much? How else can you let go and allow divine forces to bring you what you want on a silver platter? Comments please?

Authors Bio

Jimmy is a veteran teacher, coach and education officer in Singapore. He has combined his skills in the education and cosmically charged speaking style with his passion for personal development to become a life coach, speaker, trainer and writer. He writes extensively about personal development at Life Architects. His coaching and personal development training is anchored by his Ace Your PERSONAL Goals framework which sets the foundation for effective and easy to implement personal development skills.

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